How to serialize the mimemessage

Question

Hi ,
I would like to send the MimeMessage object via socket connection. To do do that i have written the following code fragment
Socket s = new Socket("localhost",3200);
OutputStream os = s.getOutputStream();
MimeMessage mimemessage
//some code to create MimeMessage
mimemessage.writeTo(os);
os.close() // this is important step
In this code fragment if i didnt close the output stream the message is not being delivered to the server side. But when i close the output stream it is closing the socket connection with the stream connection.
What i neeed is i will be sending mimemessage objects via socke asynchronously. For that purpose i would like to keep the outputstream of the socket keep opent always. But how can i send the mimemessage object via socket without closing the stream.
I tried os.flush() also. but no result.
Please help me.
thanks in advance,
Sridhar reddy .R

Answer 1

You can always create a new FilterOutputStream. Overload the close() method so that it does not close the underlying socket output stream. It would look something like:
Socket Output Stream
CustomFilterOutputStream (close() method is not propogated to underlying socket stream)
MimeOutputStream (close() method propogates to CustomFilterOutputStream)
class Custom FilterOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream {
private OutputStream nested;
CustomFilterOutputStream(OutputStream nested) {
this.nested = nested;
public void close() {
// Do nothing
You might want to add a custom method, such as "closeSocket()", to the new filter output stream.
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